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Show HAD NEVER SLEPT IN HOUSE. English Gipsy, Aged Ninety-Nine, Made Unique Boast. Tho death was recently announced of "Gipsy Sarah," tho "mother" of Lancashire gipsies, and probably the oldest and best-known gipsy In England. Eng-land. She died In her tent on the Dunes, near Blackpool, aged 99. She claimed to be tho head of tho great i Hoswoll family of gipsies, and It was her boast that sho had never slept I in a house, and had never had a I doctor until her last Illness. She was I born in Kent, but sho had lived under canvas at Blackpool for the last 77 ' years. With her husband (since dead) sho pitched her tent at North shoro, when Blackpool was a fishing village near tho cliffs which tho sea now threatens to engulf. They drifted farther nnd fartlu-r afield, as tho , builder opcroached upon the open country, until sho got to the Dunes, n longer distance from tho habitations habita-tions of men than any other members of tho tribe. |